2 hundred heads
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“In the economy of ideas that the web is creating, you are
what you share, who you are linked to, who you network
with...”
Charles Leadbeater - ‘We Think’
Two (hundred) heads are better than one...Tony CassidyJohn SayersAlan Parkinson
The Geographical Teacher Douglas Freshfield
Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 1 (1901)
‘In Britain, teachers are for the most part too scattered and too busy to come together frequently for discussion. They require a medium through which they may readily communicate with one another, exchange experiences and learn the progress that is being made in method or in appliances in our own country and abroad’
Collaboration...
To work jointly with others or together, especially in an intellectual endeavour
To cooperate with an agency with which one is not immediately connected
Synonyms: band together, cooperate, concur, conjoin, conspire, team up, unite...
Who with ?
Teacher & teacher (same school / different school)
Teacher & pupils (same school / different school)
Pupil & pupil (same school / different school)
Teacher Talk - Dylan WiliamAfL - corrupted and systematised
Teacher Learning Communities
(Community of Practice)
Monthly short sessions with 8-10 teachers to start to change habits
Group goals and individual accountability
Debates in Geog Ed.
(2013)
Co-creation
Alec CourosConnected Teacher
When I started teaching...
Alec Couros
Where to go to find collaborators ?
1999: SLN Geography Forum - Durbin & Russell
2007: NINGS for student / teacher support
2006: 1st ‘Teachmeet’ @ the Jolly Judge pub
2008: TWITTER (I joined on the 27th April that year)
1893: Geographical Association...
Annual Conference
Face to faceLocal networksClustersFederationsTeachmeet
Plus & minus...
Too many rooms ?
Choose one you’re comfortable in
Quality Control...
Ideas given away ?
“Why would I want to give away my best ideas ?”
GeographyPages - had a colleague who said an assessment I’d created had been written by her former Head of Department... a problem ?
‘There is no delight in owning anything unshared’ - Seneca
League TablesData Dashboard‘Competitors’ ?
Friendships
Wider collegialitySupport
You can’t choose your colleagues, but you can choose who you collaborate with...
2 sessions
John Sayers - SOLO Taxonomy
Tony Cassidy - stuff...
Why did I leave writing this scheme of work until
the last minute?
A normal Sunday night….
I’m not sure what case study to use…
Why did I leave writing this scheme of work until
the last minute?
How do I get my students to understand this
concept?Why I did leave writing
this scheme of work until the last minute?
Have you tried why did Mr and Mrs Endo die?
What if…
I’m not sure what approach to use…
Someone will have already done it…
But say thanks….
Someone will have already done it…
They opened a restaurant in South Wales…They escaped and unfortunately moved to Montserrat...They joined Mauro the shoe shiner…They relocated to the Caatinga only to be forced to leave…
In-house • Practice Baps
• CITAL meets
• Teaching and Learning Newsletter
• Special Interest Groups
• Professional Development Library
• Good practice archive
From my Twitter network….
A critical friend
Work with @Liz_Smith – Twitter interviews and Year
8 comparing their local area.
Your tribe
Geography flash meets- not one in a two years, time to
resurrect ?http://bit.ly/13ROifC
Collaborating further…
• Schemes of learning and collaborative writing
• Presentations
• Questionnaires and data collection
• Collaborative work with students
• Sourcing ideas
https://drive.google.com/
http://goo.gl/xyoih
Learning for a pound
How could you use these items from the
Tesco range to supplement or aid
learning?
Answers on note with your name (if you want).
Options for further collaboration...Sign-up for Twitter & subscribe to a list
Seek out a Teachmeet near you
GA Branch meeting / writing for a journal
Start blogging....
An example...
And some feedback...
“Educational research can never lead practice—great teaching is produced by teacher creativity—but what the research can do is to identify some avenues as more fruitful than others, and also make sense of the practice of effective teachers, in particular by identifying which aspects of practice are likely to be essential to success, and which are idiosyncrasies of individual teachers.”Prof. Dylan Wiliam
Stalk us here...Alan: http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
@GeoBlogs
Tony: http://sharegeography.co.uk/
@tonycassidy
John: http://sayersjohn.blogspot.com/
@JOHNSAYERS
References
Books detailed in presentation
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
http://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/afl/
Image: Alec Couros - shared under CC license
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